Post your Train shots!
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Very Nice! You had a great angle and lighting!
Thank you Rick M. There have been some rare moments in my decades of rail photography when I've suffered from "Buck Fever", when a shot is so lovely, so perfect that my hands shake as I try to trip the shutter at the optimum moment. This was one of those, yet all turned out okay.
It's interesting too how sometimes a scene that lacks people can evoke strong memories, where a photographer can recall every detail of the moment many years afterward.
It's interesting too how sometimes a scene that lacks people can evoke strong memories, where a photographer can recall every detail of the moment many years afterward.
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I love the latticework in at old bridge too! This was once a double track line.
This is another favorite shot that evokes happy memories:
It was taken in Bethlehem, PA in the early '80s in the evening after a day of railfanning with good friends. The train was barely rolling, so timing wasn't critical. The train is crossing over the Lehigh River from the former Jersey Central main to the former Reading and is about to bang across the former Lehigh Valley main. Of course, all was Conrail at this time. Kodachrome 64, Nikon N2020, 50mm.
My world stopped for 1/125th Sec. that fine evening thirty years ago and I've cherished the shot ever since.
It was taken in Bethlehem, PA in the early '80s in the evening after a day of railfanning with good friends. The train was barely rolling, so timing wasn't critical. The train is crossing over the Lehigh River from the former Jersey Central main to the former Reading and is about to bang across the former Lehigh Valley main. Of course, all was Conrail at this time. Kodachrome 64, Nikon N2020, 50mm.
My world stopped for 1/125th Sec. that fine evening thirty years ago and I've cherished the shot ever since.
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I am a new member and like train photos. My name here '3rdtrick' is what we call night work on the railroad. Here are a few of mine that I know a few members will recognize.
Nikonpup asked about the insulator colors on the line wires. The glass insulators are green or clear depending on when or by whom they were made. They are used for individual low voltage circuits controlling the signals. The top two wires with the cutouts are power and could be 6600 volts or so. The lower tan ceramic insulators could be low voltage (120 volt) power or possibly a carrier system for phone circuits. It is quite likely that they are still live circuits.
Pete
Nikonpup asked about the insulator colors on the line wires. The glass insulators are green or clear depending on when or by whom they were made. They are used for individual low voltage circuits controlling the signals. The top two wires with the cutouts are power and could be 6600 volts or so. The lower tan ceramic insulators could be low voltage (120 volt) power or possibly a carrier system for phone circuits. It is quite likely that they are still live circuits.
Pete
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Here are some train shots I got from the the same location as last time just some different angles. Thanks
Jeremy V
Jeremy V
